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Germany will be the first country with a former BlackRock executive at the helm of government.

16 min read WERNER RÜGEMER 0 comments

WERNER RÜGEMER
Germany will be the first country where a former BlackRock official becomes head of government. Friedrich Merz was not a "lobbyist," as is often described. He not only received a salary, but also held a leadership role within the group: the CDU politician was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the subsidiary BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland Aktiengesellschaft from 2016 to 2020. He reported to the New York headquarters of the largest capital organizer in the Western world, led by the United States. Merz was tasked with driving BlackRock's expansion in Germany.

Archived Asia Merunas UAB

Two sessions 2025: A China focused on its roadmap

16 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
China will continue to focus on managing its economy and strengthening its capabilities in all areas to achieve the desired high-quality development, taking a long-term view of this endeavour, with a view to 2035. At the international level, the commitment to multilateralism will strengthen the rapprochement not only with the Global South, but also opens up expectations of the involvement of other actors interested in a greater balance of power in interstate relations, capable of facing the profound global challenges that the current Trump administration addresses with total disdain.

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The Gaza 'war' was a lie, just like the ceasefire. Trump just told you so

14 min read JONATHAN COOK

JONATHAN COOK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House this week broke the mask of 16 months of gaslighting by Western leaders and the entire Western establishment media. US President Donald Trump has finally stopped sugar-coating Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza. Trump has dropped Washington's sugar-coating of Israel's 15-month-long genocidal destruction of Gaza. It was always about ethnic cleansing.

It was always, he told us, a massacre made in the USA. In his words, Washington will now “take over” Gaza and develop it. And the aim of the massacre was always ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians, he said, would be “settled” in a place where they would not have to be “worried about dying every day” – that is, killed by Israel with US-supplied bombs. Gaza, meanwhile, would become the “Riviera of the Middle East”, with the “people of the world” – he meant rich whites like himself – living in luxury beachfront estates instead.

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Aníbal Garzón: The Western media strategy against the BRICS is based on censorship and contempt

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Aníbal Garzón is a political analyst specializing in international relations. He has worked as a volunteer in several African and Latin American countries for more than 5 years. He has just published BRICS. The transition towards an alternative world order (Akal, 2024), where he analyzes the importance of emerging countries in this changing world.

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U.S. poll shows majority of Ukrainians want negotiations to end war

2 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
The European Union's rhetoric, from its European Commission to the German, French and Spanish governments, is that we must help the Ukrainians win the war and not allow them to lose territory to the Russian invasion. More or less, the same reasoning is used by the US government and NATO. The option of sitting down to negotiate with Russia to end the war as soon as possible and, if necessary, make territorial concessions seems to be synonymous with an accusation of complicity with Putin.

Well, someone seems to have asked Ukrainians what they think. It was the American pollster Gallup, and it discovered that this is precisely what the majority wants: to end the war as soon as possible, even with territorial concessions to Russia.

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A ghost is haunting the financial world: BRICS Pay

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
BRICS Pay will be a digital platform that would allow consumers and businesses in partner countries to make payments and transfer funds across borders with ease – precisely what we do now with SWIFT, except that they would not do so under Western domination. More than 50 countries have already expressed interest in joining this initiative ahead of the 2024 BRICS summit.

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China and the time of the BRICS

10 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
There is a virtually unanimous perception of a worsening of the major international dilemmas, whether we are referring to issues of peace or development, manifesting itself in open discontent with the different yardsticks applied to certain conflicts and the persistence in preserving an exclusive hegemony that does not take into sufficient consideration the changes that have occurred in recent decades in the international economy and society.

Archived Asia USA/Europe

Sinwar's disappearance marks a change of cycle

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
More than a year into the conflict, when Yahiya Sinwar's whereabouts were perhaps the biggest mystery of the war, we learn that the Israeli army has killed him. Most assumed that the Hamas leader was somewhere remote in the Gaza Strip, probably hiding in a tunnel, and well surrounded by Israeli hostages who protected him as human shields.

The information provided by Israel indicates, however, that he died in combat, a circumstance that will contribute to increasing his legend.

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The disarmed left

10 min read Txema Garcia Paredes 0 comments

TXEMA GARCIA WALLS
It must be said loud and clear. The so-called left, in general and to very different degrees, seems to be increasingly falling into the trap set by rampant capitalism on a planetary level. It plays on its field and by its rules, those imposed by capitalism itself. And so, it is impossible to win. And it does so with a referee bought in that great stadium with little lights that they have built called “Democracy” through a parliamentary system based on the delegation of votes, on “behave yourself and stay at home” and “don’t bother me again for four years” when you can vote again so that everything remains practically the same.

Archived U.S. USA/Europe Europe

The silencing

4 min read Javier García 0 comments

JAVIER GARCIA
While the conflict in Ukraine escalates dangerously and Israel continues to bomb Gaza and prepare - with the help of the United States - a major war in the Middle East with an eye on Lebanon, Iran, Yemen or Syria, silence any story that falls outside the narrative official is the parallel strategy.

In the throes of this calamitous world order propped up by wars and censorship, supporting independent journalism has become more urgent than ever. At least if we are not willing to survive with the only voice of Big Brother howling in the desert. Either we stand up to this horrible drift or the silence will end up devouring us.

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Gaza war and Jewish emigration

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
A few weeks ago a statistic based on official data was published according to which in the first months of the Gaza war that began on October 7, 2023, more than 550.000 Jewish Israelis left the country because of the conflict. There is no way to know how many of those Israelis will return at some point and how many will decide never to return, but the data, which is barely discussed in the media, is worrying for Zionism.

Archived Asia Merunas UAB

More than just an outstanding step

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The third plenary session of the CPC Central Committee has come to an end. The final statement suggests a sketch for the comprehensive reform and a layout of its perimeter. There are aspects that are notable: from the widening of the market to the commitment to innovation as a talisman, the intensification of social issues and structural reforms in the most diverse fields.